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Matt Morris

@matthewmorris.bsky.social
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A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead. A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."

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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Friends, on the matter of dodgy men in transit vans, allow me to tell you about me, two future members of the House of Lords, and the massive suspect package.
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#84: Chard
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We had been four weeks in the Downlands, myself and Brom. Four weeks on foot through valleys and dales, cross meandering streams and fast-running rivers; four weeks living off the few small creatures that Brom managed to catch - barely enough to keep a dog alive, let alone a dog and man. Thankfully, we had encountered no further Remnants, but we had seen no other Living either and I had begun to think that we two might be the last left alive in this region.
Finally, at the point where hunger had begun to feel like an ever-present companion for us both, we came across a small cottage by a wood. Deserted, near derelict inside, it held little prospect as a camp until I pushed aside the cracked back door and found myself looking at a wondrously overgrown vegetable garden. Chard leaves, almost reaching to my own height, filled the wide beds, and I, desperate for something other than toasted squirrel meat - and simultaneously heedless of the suspicious twitchings of Brom’s wet nose - grabbed handfuls of the stuff and began eating.
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The taste was glorious - earthy, full, with a tinge of bitterness - everything my deprived body had craved. And the supply appeared boundless. Despite Brom’s clear reservations, I decided to make the cottage our temporary home.
The years of wandering through The Scorched Country and The Flesheries - all that Brom and I had seen, and fled from and fought - should have given me more pause, I know that now, especially considering what horrors we had encountered, all spawned from The Great Blast. But the taste - ah, the taste of those leaves was so beguiling, so moreish…
Over the course of a week, during which I ate only the leaves - with poor Brom left to scavenge for whatever small prey he could find in our vicinity - I found myself becoming increasingly torpid and indolent. My skin took on a glistening appearance, as though sticky wet. At the same time I found my limbs growing weak, almost seeming to recede back into my body. I began to wonder who had made this garden, and where they were now?
Then one night the answer came. Crawling out into the garden almost on my belly, desperate for another leaf or two, I spied through the thick stems, a pair of stalked eyes staring back at me. Parting the stems with my wizened hand I saw him - what once had been a man, now something other; a creature resembling some kind of slug-human hybrid. His lipless, wet mouth opened in soundless greeting. I went to reply and found my own voice vanished.
Then teeth grabbed my trousers and I felt myself getting pulled away, back through the house, out through the front door, back through fields away from the cottage - away to safety.
With a weak hand I scritched Brom’s head. My saviour. My friend.
“Good boy,” I said, my voice now returning, “Good, good boy.”
Brom’s eyes spoke of love. And not a little reproach.
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble
Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
We believe we are actively creating an extinction event for humanity. We will not be asking your county planning board for zoning variances because fuck you. Why are you being so hostile
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Tony Keetch @tonykeetch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just remembered that a friend told me he took his mother to see Cleopatra. She looked at Richard O’Sullivan as Ptolemy and said, ‘She’s not that pretty, is she?’
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I see that Toby Young had written about an elite university messing up by elevating someone who may not have been actually qualified to be there. Interesting stuff
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Matt Morris @matthewmorris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I found a Rarity-79 word worth 93 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 836 points · 10 rare words. 8 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/MG6W33
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The world needs more bookish gargoyles and grotesques
A collage consisting of six photos of gargoyles and grotesques reading books, including one owl and one frog.
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 25/07/2026
Obviously in my case it has to be Werner Herzog “The bear butters the toast in a learned facsimile of human behaviour but behind his eyes is no humanity, no reason, just a hunger. Today it is for freshly buttered toast, tomorrow it could be any of us.”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And when I say dozens, I am not exaggerating. This is just when I started providing one one stop list for people who don’t want a conversation about the Oscars or their favourite novels derailed by a man whining about trans.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
TSLA reports earnings today, so I asked several AI models to evaluate it as an investment. GPT Sol: looks butt Kimi K3: ass Fable: ce n'est pas un investissement, c'est un derrière Grok: (((They))) have always been conspiring against Elon Musk, a singular genius of our time. [Word Count: 14]
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kevin Keegan: he hated fascists
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Burnham should appoint Lisa Nandy as culture secretary then someone should tap him on the shoulder and tell him
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members 
blasted.
Let him languish in 
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his 
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of 
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"I have, for the best part of two years, tried to find Clacton. I have failed. It is with regret, therefore..."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Fond memories of registering The Scam Factory Ltd for a story on the lack of checks. The following week I got an automated mailout from a small bank: "Congratulations Emma, the Scam Factory is going to be AWESOME. Here's a form to set up a free small business bank account".
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Good job the first half doesn't count
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Omg. i will strangle a horse has been played over 9000 times! If you've not played it yet, do give it a go! It's free, funny, and can be played on your phone! Reaching 10,000 plays would be absolutely lovely <3 Comedy! 13.5k words! Real silly ways to die! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...
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i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE
A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 11/06/2026
Just to note that it is possible to hold the correct opinion that the Waspi women don't have a case for compensation because it is on you to keep on top of your pension and they had loads of notice, and also not to slip into ageism and misogyny when expressing that opinion.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Really, really, really object to any news corporations labelling people setting fire to cars, houses and attacking police as 'protesters'
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11/03/2026
Marco Rubio with photoshopped clown shoes
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/04/2026
Priceless post from the official White House social media
Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47
X.com
Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis!

The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
New Model Army Been years since you've thrown a punch but you still don't think people should go to a match without expecting it. Your portfolio, put together on a dare by making the most cynical investments possible, is doing well. Yours is a strictly "no paw patrol" household.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/04/2026
i'm just worried that keir starmer is going to fire *everyone* who knew that peter mandelson was a wrong'un, and the unemployment rate in the uk will reach 99.99%
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It occurs to me that there are Republicans in Congress who assured themselves a year ago that they’d be able to shut it all down if things ever got wildly out of control, not realizing that when things are wildly out of control is exactly the time that it’s hardest to shut it all down.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 02/04/2026
An enduring classic
Tweet from @hilaryagro, 16 Feb 2020. “During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I’ve ever heard.”
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 31/03/2026
Replacement likert scale just dropped
•(.Zannah.). :: [manic pixie robot girl]
@zannah
This is the scale that I will be using for everything from now on.
Boasting a guest verse from Dr. Dre, what classic '90s R&B hit features Blackstreet singing, "I like the way you work it"?
A: No Diggity
B: Hardly Any Diggity
C: A Fair Amount of Diggity
D: An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
from 2019
[Scene is a MOON BASE on the moon. The Moonbase has an AMAZON logo on the top of its domed glass roof. From inside it, we hear a voice.]:

WHEEEE

Cut to interior scene. We see it is the voice of a man in a space suit, bouncing around in the low gravity, having a great time. We gradually realise that this man is Jeff Bezos.

Boing  

haha.

Wheeee!

[close in on Jeff's face] 

JEFF BEZOS:
Alexa!

 Set gravity to ‘Earth’.

ALEXA HOME SPEAKER:
Sure! Ending poverty on Earth now…

JEFF BEZOS:
No! 

Alexa, *stop*…

Set gravity levels to 'Earth'. 

ALEXA:
Sure Jeff.

 Whum. [Jeff gently sticks to the ground]

[Pause.]

ALEXA:

Jeff - would you like to continue with:  'End poverty on Earth'?

[Jeff thinks about this for a very long time, his face in a rictus of awkwardness. His eyes dart left and right in his head, while he is frozen in thought. This goes on for many panels.]

[in the final panel it just cuts to Jeff bouncing again, saying "Wheee"]

[Ends]
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 21/03/2026
Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Explore bold and colourful designs by Gail Myerscough, featuring prints, homewares, and stationery. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.
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qntm @qntm.org · 26/02/2026
I can overlook millimetres per year, but what utter anarchy of a unit is inches per megasecond
The Indian plate is part of the Indo-Australian plate, which underlies the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, and is moving north-east at an average of 60 mm/a (0.075 in/Ms).
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Matt Morris @matthewmorris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I've seen a lot of posts recently about whether LLMs can be conscious. I think not, due to their static nature. This paper argues my position very well. To the many who will find it hard going, I recommend asking ChatGPT to summarise its arguments: it does an excellent job. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12802
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Legs @diddia.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
any chance of a repost for our unique comics anthology currently on kickstarter @chadbourn.bsky.social ? thx www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
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